Building a Center of Expertise in Workforce Planning and Analytics

Learn to design and implement a workforce analytics and planning COE.

By Mercer—now available through AMA

Even if your organization is committed to workforce analytics and planning, specific skills are required within the entire HR function to successfully design and execute such programs. A centralized group of analytical specialists, as through a Center of Expertise (COE), can help your organization effectively report on, understand and manage human capital—and equip all of HR with the tools and processes to convey trends in workforce data, identify areas at risk, and analyze the return and impact of specific HR initiatives. Whether your workforce analytics and planning COE is one person or many, this course is designed to optimize the function's structure and governance to ensure your oganization successfully applies workforce data into business insights and a competitive advantage.

How You Will Benefit

• Learn how to develop and implement a plan for building a workforce analytics and planning Center of Expertise (COE)
• Gain an understanding of who "owns" workforce analytics and planning and how the COE's mission fits into that
• Understand how to govern the COE so that it appropriately engages stakeholders and builds organizational support for data driven decision making
• Get tools and resources to implement a workforce analytics an planning COE in your organization

What You Will Cover

• Defining the vision and infrastructure requirements for developing a workforce analytics and planning COE
• Understanding how an analytics and planning COE should interact with other parts of HR and the entire organization
• Learning the steps involved in centralizing workforce analytics and planning capabilities
• Exploring top strategies for building a successful analytics and planning COE and evaluating a typical situation using them
• Developing a high-level roadmap for implementing an analytics and planning COE in your organization

Who Should Attend

HR analysts, managers and directors charged with building or maintaining a workforce analytics and planning COE, whether it is a one-person function of has many people